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Leon County Schools students receive perfect scores on ACT; three at Chiles; two at Rickards

The Senate will likely consider legislation this year that would roll back standardized testing in public schools(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Five teenagers in Leon County have scored perfect marks on the ACT.

Three students at Lawton Chiles High School celebrated the success: Sandhya Kumar, a 10th-grader, Hayden Kwan, an 11th-grader, and Jason Liang, an 11th-grader, scored a 36, the highest possible score on the ACT test.

At James S. Rickards High School, Tanvi Haldiya and Rayyan Darji also made perfect scores.

Sandhya Kumar, a 10th-grader at Lawton Chiles High School, scored a perfect 36 on her ACT exam.(Photo: Courtesy of Lawton Chiles High School)

The ACT is a standardized exam used by colleges to compare applicants and make admissions decisions.

Fewer than 1% of students who take the test earn a perfect score, according to ACT. The testing site reports that the average score in the U.S. was 20.7 in 2019.

Hayden Kwan, a junior at Lawton Chiles High, scored a 36 on the ACT.(Photo: Courtesy of Lawton Chiles High School)

The college entrance test consists of multiple sections including English, math, reading and science. Each section is scored on a scale of 1 to 36. The totals are then averaged.

In a letter sent to the Leon County students, ACT CEO Marten Roorda said that their achievement is "significant and rare."

"Your exceptional scores will provide any college or university with ample evidence of your readiness for the academic rigors that lie ahead,” Roorda said.

Jason Liang, a junior at Lawton Chiles High, scored a perfect 36 on the ACT exam.(Photo: Courtesy of Lawton Chiles High School)

In 2019, 1.8 million students took the ACT and roughly 4,900 of them scored a 36, according to the ACT.

Casey Chapter is the deputy news editor of the FSView & Florida Flambeau. Reach her at Casey.Chapter@gmail.com or follow her on Twitter at @CaseyChapter.